as such there is no way to rollback the whole month. if you have backed up your wiki a month ago you could revert back to that dump and that would effectively roll it back to the content from the time of the last dump. another option for you which is probably better for your needs would to install something like http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Nuke which allows you to mass deleted pages/spam etc. you could also i suppose change the data in the mysql tables, but i wouldnt reccommend that.

on the matter of restricting access http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access shows you most/all of the options to do this but thats not really wiki if you start doing that. also it is possible to set captchas up to catch every edit by an ip if you want which may be usefull for you

regards

mark

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:12 PM, pwnedd keith.hughitt@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all,

I am new to MediaWiki, and was wondering if anyone might be able to help figure out the best way to deal with a problem.

I recently discovered that the Wiki I'm hosting has been spammed a large amount over the last month. I would like to remove all of the spam, and require email authentication, or even better would be admin permission for a user to edit pages hence forth. First though I need to figure out how to remove the existing spam.

Since the wiki is very low volume, there have been almost no changes over the past month, other than spam. The simplest method it would seem then would be to do a site roll-back for one month.

Is this possible?

If not, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get rid of spam without having to delete each page and block each user manually?

Finally, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights suggested a method to require all users to confirm their email. Is there any way to go one step further and require an admin approve the email?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been working through the MediaWiki docs, but they are pretty extensive, and so far I haven't had any luck.

Thanks! Keith -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Possible-to-rollback-entire-site--tp19723600p19723600.... Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Hi Keith, I'm using the following tips with excellent results: Capcha + Userrights ($wgGroupPermissions) like confirm email + some defense ($wgSpamRegex) against some kind of text & css basically used by spammers

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----- Original Message ----- From: "pwnedd" keith.hughitt@gmail.com To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 3:12 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Possible to rollback entire site?

Hi all,

I am new to MediaWiki, and was wondering if anyone might be able to help figure out the best way to deal with a problem.

I recently discovered that the Wiki I'm hosting has been spammed a large amount over the last month. I would like to remove all of the spam, and require email authentication, or even better would be admin permission for a user to edit pages hence forth. First though I need to figure out how to remove the existing spam.

Since the wiki is very low volume, there have been almost no changes over the past month, other than spam. The simplest method it would seem then would be to do a site roll-back for one month.

Is this possible?

If not, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get rid of spam without having to delete each page and block each user manually?

Finally, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights suggested a method to require all users to confirm their email. Is there any way to go one step further and require an admin approve the email?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been working through the MediaWiki docs, but they are pretty extensive, and so far I haven't had any luck.

Thanks! Keith -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Possible-to-rollback-entire-site--tp19723600p19723600.... Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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